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How many copies did The Wicked Days sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 818–1k
$4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before the cut
from 33 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The Wicked Days out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Wicked Days's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–100k
best case 475k (Yet Another Zombie Survivors)
Games like The Wicked Days

The middle of these games

≈ 13k–100k copies

≈ $27k–$590k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Yet Another Zombie Survivors at ≈ 362k–588k copies, ≈ $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 516 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 143 to 15k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Rogue-lite (7 of 8) and Zombies (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $15.
The era
5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.
How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Yet Another Zombie Survivors
2026
Est. copies
≈ 362k–588k
9.3x vs typical
SteamSpy 500k–1M
Est. revenue
$1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.2M before the cut
$14.99
15k reviews
Very Positive
Early AccessAction Roguelike
FatalZone
2024
Est. copies
≈ 57k–92k
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
$109k–$293k after Steam's cut $198k–$450k before the cut
$6.99
2k reviews
Mixed
Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
Astro Looter: Survivor
2024
Est. copies
≈ 11k–17k
SteamSpy 100k–200k
Est. revenue
$6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$24k before the cut
$1.99
429 reviews
Mixed
Bullet HellArena Shooter
Section 13
2025
Est. copies
≈ 23k–37k
SteamSpy 20k–50k
Est. revenue
$124k–$334k after Steam's cut $226k–$513k before the cut
$19.99
910 reviews
Mostly Positive
DarkTop-Down Shooter
West of Dead
2020
Est. copies
≈ 55k–90k
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
$303k–$814k after Steam's cut $551k–$1.3M before the cut
$19.99
2k reviews
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Replay ValueRogue-like
ZCREW
2022
Est. copies
≈ 9k–15k
SteamSpy 20k–50k
Est. revenue
$17k–$47k after Steam's cut $31k–$72k before the cut
$6.99
363 reviews
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Action-AdventureZombies
Apocalypse Party
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Est. copies
≈ 135k–219k
3.5x vs typical
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Est. revenue
$370k–$996k after Steam's cut $673k–$1.5M before the cut
$9.99
5k reviews
Mostly Positive
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FALL
2024
Est. copies
≈ 4k–6k
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$5k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before the cut
$4.99
159 reviews
Very Positive
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